FREITAG, 27. MÄRZ 2026 
Among the drawings, four major sheets illustrate the richness of the L. collection. L'Étude pour Vénus dans Le Réveil de Vénus by Charles-Joseph Natoire (lot 109, estimated at €12,000–€15,000) is a charming study of the female nude that shows the artist at the height of his mastery. The drawing is preparatory for a painting formerly in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, now held at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, United States, whose style recalls his celebrated cycle The Story of Psyche, created for the Hôtel de Soubise between 1737 and 1739.
By Guercino (lot 106, estimated at €8,000–€12,000), the sale includes a Three-Quarter Profile of a Woman with a Basket of Grapes, perfectly illustrating the Bolognese master’s interest in everyday figures captured from life.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is represented by une Étude d'homme barbu en pied (lot 107, estimated at €8,000–€12,000), which may be compared to the celebrated series of figures assembled in the album Solo Figure Vestite, held since 1885 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Finally, Jean-Honoré Fragonard is represented by Les Pins parasols, parc en Italie (lot 122, estimated at €6,000–€8,000), a delicate brown wash over black chalk lines, almost certainly taken from a sketchbook drawn from life during his journey of 1773–1774. The remainder of the sale offers a remarkably coherent panorama: sketches by Vien, Lajoue and Dufresnoy; still lifes by Vallayer-Coster and Oudry; drawings by Pajou and Hubert Robert copied after the antique in Rome; and a large painting by Lemonnier depicting Louis XIV attending the inauguration of Puget’s statue of Milo of Croton (lot 153, estimated at €20,000–€30,000), formerly in the collection of Eugène de Beauharnais and the Dukes of Leuchtenberg.
From Brueghel to Fragonard : A Collector’s Vision
O n this busy auction day of 27 March, Daguerre will offer a sale dedicated to drawings and paintings, primarily from the L. collection.
The star lot of the sale is undoubtedly L’Allégorie de l’Été by Jan Brueghel the Younger and the workshop of Hendrick van Balen (lot 130), estimated at €80,000–€120,000. This panel, composed of parqueted oak, brings together in an enchanted garden the Nereid Amphitrite and the goddess Ceres, embodying the allegories of Water and Earth. The two female figures receive the fruits of the earth from a satyr and a putto, while a nymph approaches them in homage. A nearly identical version of this composition is held at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. It is paired with a pendant depicting Venus in the Forge of Vulcan, a subject symbolising the two other elements: Air and Fire.
Among the drawings, four major sheets illustrate the richness of the L. collection. L'Étude pour Vénus dans Le Réveil de Vénus by Charles-Joseph Natoire (lot 109, estimated at €12,000–€15,000) is a charming study of the female nude that shows the artist at the height of his mastery. The drawing is preparatory for a painting formerly in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, now held at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, United States, whose style recalls his celebrated cycle The Story of Psyche, created for the Hôtel de Soubise between 1737 and 1739.
By Guercino (lot 106, estimated at €8,000–€12,000), the sale includes a Three-Quarter Profile of a Woman with a Basket of Grapes, perfectly illustrating the Bolognese master’s interest in everyday figures captured from life.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is represented by une Étude d'homme barbu en pied (lot 107, estimated at €8,000–€12,000), which may be compared to the celebrated series of figures assembled in the album Solo Figure Vestite, held since 1885 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Finally, Jean-Honoré Fragonard is represented by Les Pins parasols, parc en Italie (lot 122, estimated at €6,000–€8,000), a delicate brown wash over black chalk lines, almost certainly taken from a sketchbook drawn from life during his journey of 1773–1774. The remainder of the sale offers a remarkably coherent panorama: sketches by Vien, Lajoue and Dufresnoy; still lifes by Vallayer-Coster and Oudry; drawings by Pajou and Hubert Robert copied after the antique in Rome; and a large painting by Lemonnier depicting Louis XIV attending the inauguration of Puget’s statue of Milo of Croton (lot 153, estimated at €20,000–€30,000), formerly in the collection of Eugène de Beauharnais and the Dukes of Leuchtenberg.
